EPISODE 12

This episode will further show how evil Superman is (when her mom found the witnesses to reopen her case, Superman go and beg her mother in front of everybody to let the hatred go away and stop being so vindictive- naturally the mother was confused at her sudden change) and how giving Cheung Ping (like how again and again she rejects Sai Hin and yet cried her heart out after and I suspect in the next episode how she fearlessly tried to help her mom). Pretty bored with this comparison because in the end these two characters are not any smarter. I expect bigger things from Superman but this episode illustrates she sees things in the short term way. I was very disappointed when I couldn't see the much anticipated Queen (backed by Superman) vs Tin when again back to square one; Queen against falsely accused, imprisoned, blah blah blah. Is this cycle of never ending misery for the Queen ever going to stop and let the real story begin?



Then again this episode shows how suffering Cheung Ping, how eager Sing Hing tried to please her, how grateful and fearful Yoke Han and how desperate Sai Hin is to get Cheung Ping to admit she loves him in front of Yoke Han. It is true suffering for me because this will never ever stop.



Whilst all the drama is happening in the palace, the writer chose to write Cheung Ping going with Sai Hin on a study expedition. This is normally an ok storyline since it could create a love tension but there is no tension because they will end up together. So the problem is Sai Hin is always away, Cheung Ping is always near him and so who else is in the palace? Superman to do her evil things. What I want to see is Cheung Ping growing stronger and more independent and more opinionated in the palace. What I see now is a crying Cheung Ping, a suffering Cheung Ping. I see her as a weakling and this has got to stop. Cheung Ping is like every other TVB female characters, I do not see a difference. Today's episode is really a very bad storyline episode and I am beginning to feel this series amounts to nothing-there's nothing graceful and intelligent about it. What it is is pure drama and after a while, too much drama kills the story and with zero personality for characters, what you have is a series that is entertaining in the most ordinary kind of way and is easily forgettable when the next adaptation comes along.



There are some inconsistencies with this episode which is more about logic than storyline.



1. When the Queen entered a back alley, she saw a rat and she jumped, feeling very scared. For the last 8 years she has been living in EXTREME POVERTY and I expect that included huts with loads of rats. She would have got used to the sight of rats, may even eat them. So why is she so scared? A few days in the palace made her forget her sad existence for the past 8 years?



2. The party the princesses and fellow commoners had in the field. What a party, drinking from the big big bowl together, eating together, dancing together, getting drunk together. Problem is they are princesses, there is a rule, a code of etiquette involving such group of people. Of course nobody is there to stop them but to show all of them have such a good relationship? I really doubt that ever exists. And girls and boys touching each other without due regard to propriety? Very illogical.



Definitely a modern concept used in the period drama concept which is like Qiong Yau stories which is always entertaining when you suspend your disbelief. For this one episode, I can't.



Horrible episode.